Based in Capalaba, we service the whole Annerley, Fairfield, Coorparoo and Woolloongabba corridor.
Annerley is thought to be named after the town of Annerley in Surrey, England. It grew up around Annerley Junction after the electric tram service reached Ipswich Road in 1899, transforming the once-rural district into a proper suburb.
View Area →Fairfield sits within the historic Stephens Shire district, with its own railway station opening in 1896 to serve the growing riverside community.
View Area →Yeronga's name likely comes from the Aboriginal word for sandy or gravelly ground, and the suburb's popularity took off after Yeronga railway station opened in 1885.
View Area →Yeerongpilly's name dates back to 1843 and is linked to Aboriginal words referring to water and sand, and the suburb forms part of the historic Stephens Shire district.
View Area →Tarragindi sits within the former Stephens Shire district and is home to the Andrew Clarke World War I Memorial on Fernvale Road, one of the area's heritage-listed landmarks.
View Area →Moorooka was one of the suburbs hit hardest by the devastating 1973 Brisbane tornado, alongside neighbouring Yeronga and Nathan, and its heritage-listed police station and state school still stand today.
View Area →Greenslopes takes its name from a 19-hectare estate bought by Frederick Wecker in 1857, named for the area's green pastures, and is now home to Greenslopes Private Hospital and the bushland-covered Stephens Mountain.
View Area →Holland Park is named after early settler Julius Holland, and in 1908 became home to one of Brisbane's earliest mosques, built to serve the local Muslim community who had moved from India.
View Area →Holland Park West sits alongside its namesake suburb, and its former tram shelter on Logan Road remains one of the heritage-listed reminders of the area's tramline history.
View Area →Coorparoo's name is thought to come from the Aboriginal word Kulpurum, and the suburb was part of the Coorparoo Shire, created in 1875 as Brisbane's population pushed further out.
View Area →Dutton Park takes its name from its railway station, which opened in 1891, and is home to the heritage-listed Dutton Park State School, established back in 1884.
View Area →Woolloongabba's name comes from an Aboriginal expression variously interpreted as whirling waters or a fighting place, and the suburb was once known as One Mile Swamp before becoming home to the Gabba cricket ground.
View Area →East Brisbane's significant housing areas were developed during Brisbane's 1880s property boom, including the Heathfield Estate released in 1886, and the suburb's state school opened in 1899.
View Area →Highgate Hill is named for its undulating terrain, echoing London's Highgate, and is home to the Torbreck building on Dornoch Terrace - Queensland's first residential high-rise apartment, built in 1960.
View Area →West End forms a river peninsula alongside South Brisbane and Highgate Hill, and Boundary Street here once marked the original edge of the Town of Brisbane.
View Area →Rocklea's name comes from the Rocky Water Holes once found in the area, and the suburb is now home to the Brisbane Markets, one of the largest produce markets in the country.
View Area →Salisbury was originally known as Rocklea East until the railway station opened here in 1885, taking its new name from a local property owned by journalist and historian William Coote.
View Area →Nathan was named in 1967 and is home to Griffith University's Nathan campus and the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, which hosted the opening ceremony of the 1982 Commonwealth Games.
View Area →Robertson was named in 1967 in memory of Dr William Nathaniel Robertson, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Queensland from 1926 to 1938, and a founding member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.
View Area →Tennyson was originally known as Softstone Pocket before being renamed in the late 1880s after the celebrated British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
View Area →Camp Hill's name is believed to come from teamsters who once rested their bullock teams at a waterhole near the foot of Whites Hill in the suburb's south.
View Area →Carina takes its name from Kate Carina, daughter of early settler Ebenezer Thorne, whose 1850s estate on Creek Road gave the suburb its name.
View Area →Carina Heights was originally part of Carina before growing enough to open its own post office in 1957, and was formally split off as its own suburb for the 1976 census.
View Area →Norman Park is a small, leafy inner-bayside suburb bordering Coorparoo and Morningside, believed to be named after an 1890s estate in the area.
View Area →Kangaroo Point is one of Brisbane's oldest suburbs, described by explorer John Oxley in 1823 as jungle fringed with mangroves, with the higher land covered in open grassy forest.
View Area →South Brisbane was known as Kurilpa to the local Aboriginal people, and takes its European name from its position on the south bank of the river, directly opposite what is now the Brisbane CBD.
View Area →Coopers Plains was originally named Cowper's Plains after Dr Henry Cowper, Assistant Surgeon at the Moreton Bay penal settlement, with the spelling gradually corrupted to its current form by the 1870s.
View Area →Acacia Ridge takes its name from the acacia, or wattle, trees once common along the ridge line, and the suburb was developed after World War II to house returning servicemen.
View Area →Archerfield is named after the Archerfield pastoral station, a 14,000-acre property acquired by settler Michael Durack in 1881, and later became home to Brisbane's main airport until 1948.
View Area →Runcorn takes its name from the English town of Runcorn in Cheshire, the birthplace of a local clergyman who helped name the district in the 1880s.
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